V. Can she excuse my wrongs

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T:V. Can she excuse my wrongs
T:Bassus
C: John Dowland
O: From The First Booke of songs or Ayres of foure parts, with Tableture for the Lute
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w:Can she ex- cuse ex- cuse _ my wrongs with 
w:Are those cleer fires cleer fires _ which va- nish 
w:Was i so base, that I _ might 
w:As they are high, so high _ is 
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w:ver- tues cloak? shal I call her good when she  proves
w:in- to smoak? must I praise the leaves where no fruit
w:not, might not, as- pire Un- to those high joyes which she holds 
w:my de- sire, de- sire: If she this de- nie, what can gran- 
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w: un- kind? No no: where _ sha- dows _ do for bo- dies 
w: I find? Cold love is _ like to _ words writ- ten on 
w: from me? If she will _ yeeld to _ that  which rea- son 
w: ted be? Deare make me _ hap- py _ still by grant- ing
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w:stand, thou maist be a- busde if thy sight be dim.
w:sand, or to bub- bles which on the wa- ter swim.
w:is, It is rea- sons will that love should be just.
w:this, Or cut off de- layes if that I die must.
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w:  Wilt thou be thus a- bu- sed still, see- ing that she wil 
w:Bet- ter a thou- sand times to die, Then for to live thus
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w: right thee ne- ver?  if thou canst not ore- com her
w:  still tor- ment- ed: Deare but re- mem- ber it was 
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w: wil, thy love wil be thus fruit- les e- ver.
w: I Who for thy sake did die con- tent- ed.

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